![]() Released after their departure from the label, it revisits "Got to Have You Back" and some less memorable selections that don't really stay with the listener even after repeated plays. ![]() ![]() Tamla Motown Presents the Isley Brothers is part reissue, part leftover. As the album of the same name leaned on Supremes and Martha & the Vandellas repertoire, so the follow-up Soul on the Rocks sounded too much like territory well covered by other Motown acts. Since the Isley Brothers were never a priority at the label, the content of their few albums suggest a case of cashing in on the coincidental chart success of This Old Heart of Mine. For a start, all Motown acts had to stand patiently in line as the label's famed writing and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland busied itself with the Supremes and the Four Tops. ![]() The potential of Ronald Isley might have been overlooked, or their arrival was simply a case of bad timing. Trying yet for a third time to assert their talents turned out another false start. Hooking up with Motown proved a short-lived marriage for the Isley Brothers.
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